[ozmidwifery] abortion and working with women etc

[Honey Acharya]

Abby I find your writings on abortion very judgemental of others. How can you sit in judgment when you personally have not been through abortion and know what it is like, or know why a woman would make that choice? It seems you have never had to face a situation personally with abortion. Or if you have you need to deal with your feelings about it adequetly rather than sit in judgment of others.   I have had two abortions personally - one an unwanted pregnancy at a very young age with failed contraceptives and the other a very much wanted pregnancy and abortion due to medical reasons (my health not the fetus'). They were hard situations and the grief I have experienced is enormous. I have reflected on my views on abortion many times and although I don't believe I would choose an abortion again for myself I still believe in a womans right to choose an abortion.   Perhaps its time you turned the attention and energy around and focus on yourself and look at what it is inside yourself that you can't accept.   I worry that someone who works with women regulary would hold such harsh views. How can you care and support them adequetly feeling the way you do? Do you ask each woman before you work with them about their "abortion status" and decline working with them if they have had an abortion?   I didn't want to join this debate as it is such an emotive one and probably does no good, but your comments affected me and there are probably many women on this list who have had abortions so you are sitting in judgement of many and bringing up pain and many feelings for women in a very unloving and unsupportive way.   perhaps its time to take this debate to an abortion list rather than an ozmid one.   Thanks     ----- Original Message ----- From: Abby and Toby To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] re: abortion etc >>Vegetarianism and abortion, I find that incredibly ridiculous!   I just can't get this comment out of my head. It is so ridiculous...........so ridiculous that some women don't eat meat because they don't want to harm or kill an animal, yet they will willfully, and by choice, harm and kill their unborn baby. I find this incredibly ridiculous.   Abby